Steven Ridley Reports on Scott Spielberg about his Artificial Poetry project Steven Ridley: Scott, we first met when you were working at the labs down in new mexico on your poetry algorithms… Scott Spielberg: right, the AI labs, with Murray Gellman and Chris. Until the biology lab fires… Steven Ridley: …but I wanted to talk [...]
with DaveDave interviews Smokey Pitts for the Lexington Collection Collected Thoughts of a Barbecue Philosopher Now, folks, Smokey will tell you what’s on his mind in a heartbeat. So it was when we were having lunch one day last fall out at Pete’s Piggy Palace in Lizard Lick, North Carolina. Here are excerpts from our [...]
with Eric StepmanAK Explains all! N.Y.C., NY, Nov. 1996 Editors note: I met A.K. Otterness for this interview in the lobby of the New York Public Library, where he spends the vast majority of his time reading. Even though the main reading room was closed for renovation, we managed to find a private sofa, where [...]
with Stanislaus I. SkodaAnother Missive from… This is Skoda. While the news reaches me in the hinterlands of Eastern Europe that presidents are being impeached and bombs are falling, here I am finding that the dark peasants of Jerzy Kozinski’s STEPS are alive and kicking. Somehow, I am staying the winter in the small POlish [...]
with Sam FrontSkoda Explained, perhaps “Given any usual day, Terror strikes. Where? In the Heart and Mind, specifically at you. Something out there is gunning for your grisly demise, only you are not aware of it, for a veil of Illusion, of Maya, has been placed over your eyes. You have been pumped full of [...]